bela

See also: belà, Béla, bêla, Běla, belâ, bela', beła, and Bela

Catalan

Verb

bela

1. third-person singular present indicative form of belar
2. second-person singular imperative form of belar

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Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbela/
• Hyphenation: be‧la
• Rhymes: -ela

Adjective

bela (accusative singular belan, plural belaj, accusative plural belajn)

1. beautiful, pretty
   • 1907, Filipina Esperantisto, Volumes 1-2,^[1]:

     Kiaj belaj estas ĝiaj altaj montoj tute kovritaj de kreskaĵoj!

     How beautiful are its tall mountains completely covered with plants!

   • 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Genezo 12:14.

     Kaj kiam Abram venis Egiptujon, la Egiptoj vidis, ke la virino estas tre bela.

     And when Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

   Antonym: malbela

Derived terms

• belega

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bela, French beau, Italian bello, Spanish belo, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.la/

Adjective

bela

1. beautiful

Antonyms

• leda

Derived terms

• beleskar (“to embellish”)
• beligar (“to beautify, embellish”)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bela, probably from Sanskrit वेला (velā, “point, time, end”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.la/
• Hyphenation: bèla

Verb

bela

1. to look after (used in the form membela)

Derived terms

• membela
• pembela
• pembelaan

 

Further reading

• “bela” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Verb

bela

1. third-person singular present indicative of belare
2. second-person singular imperative of belare

Anagrams

• albe

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Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء‎ (balāʾ).

Noun

bela ?

1. affliction

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Mirandese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *vela, from the plural of Latin velum.

Noun

bela f (plural belas)

1. (nautical) sail
2. sail, blade of a windmill
3. spark plug

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bela

1. simple past of belegge

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Old Occitan

Adjective

bela

1. feminine singular of bel

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.lɐ/

Adjective

bela

1. Feminine singular of adjective belo.
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:

     Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas, foi Dumbledore que arranjou, uma bela caverna.

     He now has a home in the mountains, Dumbledore is who provided it, a beautiful cave.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bèlot, belȍt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bêla/
• Hyphenation: be‧la

Noun

bȅla f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏ла)

1. belote

References

• “bela” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Volapük

Noun

bela

1. genitive singular of bel